From: Snoopy Dog <snoopy.pa30@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T07:26:10+09:00
Subject: Date Format Change - Help request

Newbie question about changing a date format

I have a series of data files  in the format:
ABC, 7/21/2005, 1825
CNC1, 7/28/2005, 34.21
BPR, 9/3/2006, 34872

I need to output it to a DIFFERENT Directory as
ABC, 20050721, 1825
CNC1, 20050728, 34.21
BPR, 20060903, 34872

code snippet below

Find.find(sourcedir) do |path|
   if File.file? path
      puts path
      log.puts path
      output = path.gsub(sourcedir, destdir)  # name/dir change for
output file
      data = File.readlines(path)
      data.each { |row|
        (machine, date, produced) = row.split(/,/)
        (tmonth, tday, tyear) = date.split(/\//)
        newdate = tyear + "%02d" % tmonth + "%02d" % tday
        date = newdate
        log2.puts machine + " , "+ date + " , " + newdate
      }
      log.puts "Outputting file " + output
      open(output,'w') {|f| f.puts data}
   end
end

I get the file output to the proper location, but the DATE format does
not change.
The log2 shows output in the proper format, the date and newdate ARE the
same.
The output file is still the same as the original input file.

Not sure what I am missing, but any assistance is appreciated.

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